Surficial Processes Quotes

#1. BRCA-1, a gene that strongly predisposes humans to breast and ovarian cancer.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#2. The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more.

Ernest Hemingway,

#3. I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

Bruno Mars

#4. At the still point, there the dance is.

T. S. Eliot

#5. Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

Brian Molko

#6. He was a friendly but sad figure. People said of him: 'A rich man who is not proud. A fortunate man who does not look happy.

Victor Hugo

#7. Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.

Donald Kingsbury

#8. Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.

George Zebrowski

#9. Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.

Alan Dean Foster

#10. Nowadays professionals everywhere are twice as likely to work long hours as their less-educated peers.

Anonymous

#11. Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

Lu Xun

#12. On a clear night, look up and count the stars and hold onto that number and know that I love you more. I will always love you.

Rosalind Noonan

#13. A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

Judy Blume

#14. Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

Morris Gleitzman

#15. When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

Jerome Lawrence